Sharing the Screen With Kirk Douglas
Count the candles. 103. Yes Kirk Douglas is 103 years young today. Each year since starting up Mike’s Take On the Movies I set aside December 9th to celebrate the […]
Sabata (1969)
With the arrival of Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, the so called spaghetti western genre was born and would continue to evolve and bend the accepted way westerns were filmed, […]
Now Playing December 28th, 1968 At a Theater Near You
Thankfully Malcolm McDowell has given his consent to allow me to borrow his personal time machine that he used to great acclaim in the Nicolas Meyer sci-fi adventure Time After […]
Hawk the Slayer (1980)
When given the opportunity to spotlight a film “that’s so bad it’s good” as part of a blogathon kindly put together by Rebecca of Taking Up Room, I immediately thought […]
Recalling “The 50 Worst Films of all Time”
By Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss. Somewhere in the piles or boxes of books around here I have a dog eared copy of The Golden Turkey Book Awards. I remember […]
Time to Read a Good Movie
More of those movie tie-ins that can make for a nostalgic look back to simpler times at both the movie theater and the Mom and Pop book shops. Let’s start […]
Death Rage (1976)
The coolest man in black this side of Johnny Cash, Yul Brynner, played his last role in this Euro crime thriller under the direction of the prolific Antonio Margheriti. Oscar […]
Now Playing July 1st 1967 on Canada’s 100th Birthday
Talk about a celebration! Not only was my beloved Canada celebrating it’s 100th year but theaters in Toronto, Ontario had an amazing line up of movies for everyone to choose […]
Out Shopping Today…… For Movie Posters!
Today was a day to indulge in seeing if I could afford to add a few titles to the vault here at Mike’s Take. While I did score a trio […]
633 Squadron (1964)
The Walter Mirisch Company brings to the big screen this WW2 adventure that is enjoyable though presented on a much smaller scale than some of Walter’s other 1960’s productions including […]
Taras Bulba (1962)
This Harold Hecht production with J. Lee Thompson directing comes across as if it had been intended to be the biggest spectacle of the year capturing the bulk of the […]
Dietrich & Riefenstahl
Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century In Two Lives By Karin Wieland Having read previous books on Marlene Dietrich, I came into this latest edition on her life well versed on […]
TCM Festival 2016 …… Here I Come
While I may not be a Jimmy Stewart type, could it be that I have my very own Clarence the angel looking after yours truly. Maybe he even looks like […]
File of the Golden Goose (1969)
This typically plotted story of an agent infiltrating a gang of cut throats had been done before in films like White Heat and afterwards as recently as The Departed. Might […]
Zachary Scott : Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad by Ronald L. Davis
Reading bios on actors who are not household names can be quite enlightening at times. The reasons can vary and with this book it’s in part because we often associate […]
Surprise Package (1960)
“You don’t know the difference between right and wrong anymore.” “Sure I do. Wrong is when you get caught.” So answers Yul Brynner to girlfriend Mitzi Gaynor’s statement in this […]
